Summer Sale Ad Promises Fresh Features Daily
Page ad touts ongoing bargains for summer needs with new features added throughout the month. It urges readers to follow daily advertisements and notes that goods will not be charged at sale prices.
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1914
Page
4
Page ad touts ongoing bargains for summer needs with new features added throughout the month. It urges readers to follow daily advertisements and notes that goods will not be charged at sale prices.
Exquisite satin stripe voile in champagne and light blue offered at 23¢, tub silks seven inches wide with woven dots and floral prints, bhantung silks embroidered at 330, brocade floras at 28¢, silk mixed ratine 39¢, two tone ratine 63¢. all wash goods discount 10 percent.
A sales listing details long cloth, nainsook, and cotton fabrics with varied widths and prices. Includes India linon, batistes, lawns, poplin, pique, crepes, and finishing fabrics. Prices per yard range from fractions of a dollar to around three dollars, with multiple inch measurements noted.
Readied list shows July clearance on domestic textiles including calico Amoskeag ginghams madras crepes and cotton batting. Prices slashed to fractions of a dollar with wide selections in percale colored shirting and comfort sateens. Many old headings imply a general discount event across textiles.
A feature offering 50 percent reductions in linens and damask goods for housewives hotels and boardings houses. The sale lists mercerized damask linen 64 to 72 inch widths, napkins towels and sheeting at clearance prices with color varieties bleached creme and all other grades. Also includes pillow cases bed spreads and muslin and cambric fabrics with multiple sizes and discounted prices.
Women s handkerchiefs offered at 3 for 5c with 100 dozen hemstitched dimity pieces, plus 5c and 10c fabrics like crepe delaines and calicoes. Samples of dainty undermuslins, underskirts, combination suits and muslin gowns priced low. Limit 10 yards per customer on fabrics, 10 yards White Cheese Cloth.
A distressed ad lists various rug sizes and prices including 9x12 and 11-3x12 Axminster and Velvet items with values from 14.60 to 33.45 and Wilton rugs priced up to 212. It also features toiletry items such as Sanitel Soap and Derma Viva powder with low prices, reflecting an early mid century sale catalog.
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